Jan van Eyck

1978, Italy. A prosperous country, but also a country of the mafia and the Brigate Rosse, one of high inflation, omertà, corruption beneath a facade, at least two cabinets per year, a country of...

The dictates of Parisian idiom, the American Dream wrapped up in the abstraction of the New York School, the postmodern trans-avant-garde of the axis Cologne-Rome: the idea of world art has a...